The first thing that is likely to catch your eye about The Company You Keep, the latest directorial effort from Robert Redford, is the vast amount of star power it contains. I can’t recall having seen so impressive a cast for at least the last several years. Take a look at this list: Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Terrence Howard, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Anna Kendrick, and Sam Elliott. These names, most of whom have won or have been nominated for an Academy Award, would be enough to convince most people to give the film a shot, but then again, more details on the film couldn’t hurt.
The plot revolves around a group of ex-radicals known as the “Weather Underground.” A few decades ago, they staged numerous protests and even committed a number of violent acts, including a bank robbery. Years later,...
The plot revolves around a group of ex-radicals known as the “Weather Underground.” A few decades ago, they staged numerous protests and even committed a number of violent acts, including a bank robbery. Years later,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 13, 2013
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Drama movie The Company You Keep has a stellar cast headlined by Robert Redford (The Horse Whisperer), Shia Labeouf (Lawless) and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise).
Based on the novel by Neil Gordon, the film tells the story of Nick Sloan (aka Jim Grant) former underground militant activist who’s wanted as an accomplice for a bank robbery that turned deadly in the 1970s.
After Nick’s old compatriot is arrested, ambitious young reporter Ben Shepard (Labeouf) starts digging into Nick’s past. Nick must go on the run, get his daughter to safety and try to clear his name.
The cast of the R-rated movie also includes Nick Nolte (Warrior), Stanley Tucci (Margin Call), Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago), Chris Cooper (The Company Men), Terrence Howard (Red Tails), Richard Jenkins (Killing Them Softly), Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Drama movie The Company You Keep has a stellar cast headlined by Robert Redford (The Horse Whisperer), Shia Labeouf (Lawless) and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise).
Based on the novel by Neil Gordon, the film tells the story of Nick Sloan (aka Jim Grant) former underground militant activist who’s wanted as an accomplice for a bank robbery that turned deadly in the 1970s.
After Nick’s old compatriot is arrested, ambitious young reporter Ben Shepard (Labeouf) starts digging into Nick’s past. Nick must go on the run, get his daughter to safety and try to clear his name.
The cast of the R-rated movie also includes Nick Nolte (Warrior), Stanley Tucci (Margin Call), Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago), Chris Cooper (The Company Men), Terrence Howard (Red Tails), Richard Jenkins (Killing Them Softly), Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and...
- 6/27/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
★★☆☆☆ With a stellar cast consisting of an incredible nine Academy Award-nominated performers, it's safe to say that the expectations for Robert Redford's The Company You Keep (2012) are suitably high. However, such anticipation results in severe disappointment as we're treated to a tedious, American equivalent of Last of the Summer Wine. Redford directs and also stars as Jim Grant, a small-town lawyer and single father who becomes embroiled in local journalist Ben Shepard's (Shia Labeouf) investigation into the terrorists of an activist group, following the arrest of former member Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon).
It soon transpires that Redford's Grant is actually long-term FBI fugitive Nick Sloan, and due to Shepard discovering his true identity, the former activist will have to give up his comfortable home life with his daughter and go on the run once again. What is intriguing about The Company You Keep is how the viewer is...
It soon transpires that Redford's Grant is actually long-term FBI fugitive Nick Sloan, and due to Shepard discovering his true identity, the former activist will have to give up his comfortable home life with his daughter and go on the run once again. What is intriguing about The Company You Keep is how the viewer is...
- 6/5/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Chicago – The golden age of the great Robert Redford occurred in the 1970s, when he participated in making passionate political statements with “All the President’s Men,” “The Candidate” and “Three Days of the Condor.” Redford stars in and directs a throwback to those times, the equally passionate yet softer-in-narrative “The Company You Keep.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
It’s a reminder of 1960s radicalism, the evolution of life and how priorities can muddy up youthful indiscretions. It unfortunately creates a somewhat melodramatic and difficult to believe chase thriller along the way, but there is also that passion, the underlying need by communicators like Redford to make films that matter, about subjects that should give pause in the current U.S. political landscape. This film is worth seeing, if only to honor and remember the boomer generation that stopped an unjust war, and then was destined like all of us to see their...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
It’s a reminder of 1960s radicalism, the evolution of life and how priorities can muddy up youthful indiscretions. It unfortunately creates a somewhat melodramatic and difficult to believe chase thriller along the way, but there is also that passion, the underlying need by communicators like Redford to make films that matter, about subjects that should give pause in the current U.S. political landscape. This film is worth seeing, if only to honor and remember the boomer generation that stopped an unjust war, and then was destined like all of us to see their...
- 4/13/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Shia Labeouf has already quite effectively shrugged off his adolescent persona as a Disney kid (admittedly, though, he was always a bit of a weird one, he certainly wasn’t going to ever star in his own version of High School Musical) with a series of big blockbusters and big public bust-ups, but the actor still seems to be searching for an appropriate niche to serve his undeniable (though sometimes overshadowed) talents. Fortunately for everyone involved, Labeouf hits his stride in Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, a smart and serious slice of hard-boiled drama that’s long been absent from the local multiplex. Labeouf stars as Ben Shepard, a go-getter cub reporter in upstate New York who stumbles upon the biggest story of his young career, one that unexpectedly pops up practically in his own backyard. When Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon) is captured by the FBI at a random gas station in New York state...
- 4/6/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Los Angeles — Robert Redford does his most compelling work in some time as both actor and director in "The Company You Keep," a tense yet admirably restrained thriller about a fugitive forced out of hiding after 30 years to prove his innocence. Adapted with clarity and intelligence by Lem Dobbs from Neil Gordon's novel, and lent distinguishing heft by its roster of screen veterans, this gripping drama provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent.
Recalling aspects of Sidney Lumet's poignant "Running on Empty" from 1988, but with a more subdued emotional palette, the film opens with vintage-style news footage detailing charges against members of radical antiwar group the Weather Underground in the early 1970s for plotting to blow up buildings in multiple U.S. cities. A second report follows, attributing responsibility to the same group for a Michigan bank robbery during which a security guard was killed.
Recalling aspects of Sidney Lumet's poignant "Running on Empty" from 1988, but with a more subdued emotional palette, the film opens with vintage-style news footage detailing charges against members of radical antiwar group the Weather Underground in the early 1970s for plotting to blow up buildings in multiple U.S. cities. A second report follows, attributing responsibility to the same group for a Michigan bank robbery during which a security guard was killed.
- 4/4/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
As a director, Robert Redford has repeatedly been drawn to narratives that if not recounting real events, are often inspired by them. As follow-up to his historical drama The Conspirator, which focused on the vengeful aftermath of Lincoln's assassination, Redford offers an adaptation of the Neil Gordon novel The Company You Keep, which uses the 1960s far-left radical group the Weather Underground as the base for a provocative thriller. Set in contemporary America, Shia Labeouf heads a star-studded cast playing Ben Shepard, a journalist who desperately needs a scoop to keep his job. When news breaks that a member of the Weather Underground (Susan Sarandon) who has long been wanted in connection with a bank robbery and murder has been arrested, interest in the group and its lone unaccounted for member is renewed. Chasing the story of what ever happened to fugitive Nicholas Sloan, Shepard pulls strings with an ex...
- 8/30/2012
- cinemablend.com
Rapper Lloyd Banks has been arrested on suspicion of assault in Canada. The G-Unit star was taken into custody by police in Ontario at the weekend, after allegedly attacking club promoter Chris Hines. Hines booked Banks to perform several tracks at Club N.V. but he arrived late and only played one song before leaving the stage, according to AllHipHop.com.
But trouble ensued when Hines refused to pay Banks for the gig, reportedly prompting a fight between the promoter and the rapper, who had been accompanied by three associates. Hines was admitted to a local hospital and treated for multiple contusions and head trauma.
Banks was arrested alongside pals Shaun McGee, Tyrell Cooper and Nicholas Sloan and the four men are now facing charges of assault, robbery and forced confinement.
But trouble ensued when Hines refused to pay Banks for the gig, reportedly prompting a fight between the promoter and the rapper, who had been accompanied by three associates. Hines was admitted to a local hospital and treated for multiple contusions and head trauma.
Banks was arrested alongside pals Shaun McGee, Tyrell Cooper and Nicholas Sloan and the four men are now facing charges of assault, robbery and forced confinement.
- 1/11/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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